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A Practitioner's Guide to European Patent Law

For National Practice and the Unified Patent Court

Paul England, Taylor Wessing, London, UK This new edition is a comprehensive and practical guide to European patent law, highlighting the areas of consistency and difference between the most influential European patent law jurisdictions: the European Patent Office, England and Wales, France, Germany, and the Netherlands, and drawing insights from other active patent jurisdictions. Uniquely, the book addresses European patent law by subject matter area rather than in nation-by-nation chapters. In addition to featuring commentary on new countries, the second edition includes new chapters dedicated to the substantive aspects of FRAND, declarations, and evidence. There is also an expanded commentary on construction.

UK June 2022 • US August 2022 • 672 pages HB 9781509947645 • £160.00 / $220.00 ePub 9781509947652 • £144.00 / $188.92 ePdf 9781509947669 • £144.00 / $188.92 Hart Publishing

Contracting and Contract Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Edited by Martin Ebers, University of Tartu, Estonia, Cristina Poncibò, University of Turin, Italy & Mimi Zou, University of Reading, UK This book provides insights into the nature, scope, and implications of AI in relation to contracting practices and contract law. The chapters feature indepth analysis of a range of topical issues, including implications for autonomy, consent, information asymmetries in contracting, and how AI is shaping contracting practices. The book covers major common and civil law jurisdictions, including the EU, Italy, Germany, UK, US, and China. It should be read by anyone interested in the complex and fast-evolving relationship between AI, contract law, and related areas of law such as business, commercial, consumer, competition, and data protection laws.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 400 pages HB 9781509950683 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781509950690 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781509950706 • £76.50 / $100.32 Hart Publishing

Law of Crypto Assets

Edited by Philipp Maume, Lena Maute & Mathias Fromberger As more and more of commercial interactions move to the digital sphere, crypto assets are becoming much more common on companies’ balance sheets. Just as with physical assets, they are subject to regulation across a number of spheres, expertly set out in this essential guide. The expert team of contributors set out how crypto assets are treated from the all legal perspectives including: international private law; consumer protection; data protection; anti-money-laundering. With 11 country/regional reports, it is an essential guide for all practitioners advising on crypto assets.

UK December 2021 • US January 2022 • 608 pages HB 9781509945948 • £180.00 / $245.00 Beck/Hart/Nomos World English (excluding Austria/Czech Republic/Germany/Japan/Poland/Switzerland) Enforcing Rights in a Changing World

Edited by Dara Hallinan, FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Germany, Ronald Leenes, Tilburg University, Netherlands & Paul De Hert, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium This is a new volume in the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection series, collecting a selection of papers from the 14th CPDP Conference (2021). As a world-leading multidisciplinary conference, CPDP offers the cutting edge in legal, regulatory, academic, and technological development in privacy and data protection. This volume brings together papers that offer conceptual analyses, highlight issues, propose solutions, and discuss practices regarding privacy, data protection and enforcing rights in the world during and after the pandemic.

UK December 2021 • US February 2022 • 336 pages HB 9781509954513 • £55.00 / $75.00 ePub 9781509954520 • £49.50 / $65.14 ePdf 9781509954537 • £49.50 / $65.14 Series: Computers, Privacy and Data Protection • Hart Publishing

Is Law Computable?

Critical Perspectives on Law and Artificial Intelligence

Edited by Simon Deakin, University of Cambridge, UK & Christopher Markou, University of Cambridge, UK What does computable law mean for the autonomy, authority, and legitimacy of the legal system? These essays, by a group of leading international scholars, address fascinating questions raised by the encroachment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into more aspects of legal process, administration, and culture. Weighing near-term benefits against the longer-term, and potentially path-dependent, implications of replacing human legal authority with computational systems, this volume pushes back against the more uncritical accounts of AI in law and the eagerness of scholars, governments, and LegalTech developers, to overlook the more fundamental - and perhaps ‘bigger picture’ - ramifications of computable law.

UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 320 pages PB 9781509945597 • £39.99 / $54.95 Previously published in HB 9781509937066 ePub 9781509937080 • £72.00 / $95.11 ePdf 9781509937073 • £72.00 / $95.11 Hart Publishing

Digital Work Platforms at the Interface of Labour Law

Regulating Market Organisers

Eva Kocher, European University Viadrina, Germany This book shows how to design labour rights to protect digital platform workers, organise accountability on virtual workspaces, and guarantee workers’ collective representation and action. The book provides a fresh perspective for international academic and policy debates on the regulation of digital work platforms, as well as on the purposes and foundations of labour law. It offers a way out of the impasse the debate around labour law classification has reached, by showing what labour law could learn from digital law approaches to platforms – and vice versa.

UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 336 pages HB 9781509949854 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781509949861 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781509949878 • £76.50 / $100.32 Hart Publishing